Cancer Survivor and Extreme Sports Enthusiast Jothy Rosenberg to Deliver Fifth Annual Meredith E. Drench Lecture

Talk entitled “Who Says I Can’t” to focus on the Psychosocial Aspects of Rehabilitation

Entrepreneur, author, motivational speaker, and extreme sports enthusiast Jothy Rosenberg, PhD, will deliver the 2013 Meredith E. Drench Lecture at Boston University College of Health & Rehabilitation Sciences: Sargent College on April 11, 2013.   His talk, titled after his book of the same name, “Who Says I Can’t”, will share Rosenberg’s perspective on the effect that suddenly becoming disabled and believing your life is over can have on one’s personality and ability to fight back, recover, and thrive.

An avid athlete, Rosenberg used extreme sports to recover from two bouts with cancer, an amputation, and having a lung removed all as a teenager when he was told he had zero chance of survival. Forty years later, Rosenberg remains very active in extreme sports and uses many of them to raise money for important causes.

Rosenberg received a PhD in computer science from Duke University where he was a professor for five years. He is the founder of eight high-tech startup companies – two of which had exits of more than $100M – and the author of three technical books: How Debuggers Work, Securing Web Services, and most recently, The Cloud at Your Service. Today he helps startup companies navigate their perilous early days, runs several large government research programs in cybersecurity, and is a motivational speaker sharing his experiences from his book, Who Says I Can’t. He also created a new TV series called Who Says I Can’t, which focuses on the incredible people you will find everywhere who refuse to be knocked down by life and who have used sports to fight back and thrive.

About the Lecture
The annual Drench lecture was started in 2009 through an endowment from Sargent College alumna Meredith E. Drench, PhD, PT.  The talk focuses on the connection between physical rehabilitation and psychosocial behavioral influences, advocating Sargent and Drench’s shared belief in the “compassionate rehabilitation” of the whole person.

Event Details
When: Thursday, April 11, 2013 at 4:30 p.m.
Where: BU Sargent College, 635 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MA in Room 101

The event is free and open to the public. All attendees are invited to a reception following the lecture in the Setterberg Lounge.